Austin Tech Connect: The Podcast For The Austin Technology Ecosystem, Business Leaders, and Tech Entrepreneurs!

Chris is a dad, husband, serial entrepreneur, CEO advisor, and bootstrap evangelist. Chris founded Square Root in 2006 after a 10 year career at Trilogy Software. He bootstrapped Square Root for 15 years until he sold it to an automotive strategic, CDK Global in 2021. Now Chris helps other entrepreneurs overcome their challenges and celebrate their wins.

Square Root's SaaS platform, CoEFFICIENT, helped the world's leading automotive brands use data science to drive dealership performance. Culture is a huge focus for Chris, and Square Root received many culture accolades including being named the 2nd best US workplace by FORTUNE, a top innovator by Fast Company, and one of PEOPLE magazine's top companies that care.

Chris graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Carnegie Mellon with degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Cognitive Psychology.

Outside of entrepreneurship, Chris enjoys adventuring with his wife and two daughters, cycling, and a nice glass of wine.

In his role as CEO and Founder of SailPoint, Mark brings almost 35 years of experience in technology, with over 20 years as a founder and leader of innovative identity management companies. Under Mark's direction, SailPoint has grown into the leader in identity security for the modern enterprise with over 2K employees worldwide, operating in 155 countries. Last year, SailPoint was acquired by Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6.9 billion. Mark directs and drives the overall vision and strategy for SailPoint, which is underpinned by his commitment and passion for building topperforming teams, creating a collaborative and innovative work environment, and focusing continuously on the needs of customers.

Teaming is a concept that Mark promotes throughout the company: teaming with forwardthinking customers to understand their needs, with partners to ensure customer success, and ultimately within SailPoint to develop innovative, market-leading solutions. Mark is passionate about maintaining the spirit of teamwork, even as SailPoint grows its employee base and its global presence to offices around the world.

Prior to SailPoint, he co-founded Waveset Technologies, which was ultimately acquired by Sun Microsystems. Mark's career also includes diverse experience in international sales and marketing with Hewlett-Packard and IBM/Tivoli Systems.

Following 4 years of R&D at the University of Cambridge in England, CEO and founder Angela Hood returned to Austin, Texas to build ThisWay Global Inc., a company that converges technology with talent networks (not job boards) to unlock human potential.

Today, ThisWay is one of the fastest growing SaaS automation companies in the world, serving over 5000 company customers. ThisWay provides unbiased talent matching and sourcing through its proprietary network of over 8,500 unique, diverse community partners. Hood is a well respected thought leader and international keynote speaker on the topics of mitigating bias using artificial intelligence, the ROI of diversity and human-centric automation. While many know ThisWay through their acceleration by Google, Hood is also the technology advisor for the Board of Directors of Consort Institute at Clark Atlanta University (HBCU). Her groundbreaking work is covered in Simon & Schuster's book, Hack Recruiting, and she was also recognized by ideaSpace - University of Cambridge and Texas A&M University as Outstanding Alumni in 2021.

"As a serial entrepreneur there is no greater accomplishment than to solve a problem that positively affects the world. Our agnostic approach enables us to truly 'match all people to all jobs in all systems'. I'm proud that through technology, ThisWay is bringing candidates, employers and our network partners together to make meaningful change." - Angela Hood.

Richard Walker is the CEO and co-founder of Quik!.

Having started 10 companies since age 12, host of The Customer Wins podcast, author of two books, and father to three boys, Richard empowers people to do their best work. Prior to starting Quik!, Richard was a financial advisor with Financial Network and a business consultant with Arthur Andersen. He started Quik! in 2002 to help people spend less time on paperwork and more time on what they do best.

Quik! is the industry leader in enterprise forms automation service and provides an extensive library of fillable forms. Quik! eliminates handwriting on forms which translates to fewer errors and faster processing for paperdriven transactions. As an added benefit, Quik! saves a tree every hour of every day.

For more… Visit www.quikforms.com or find Richard as "QuikFormsCEO" on LinkedIn to get a free copy of his book, "It's My Life! I Can Have The Job I Want".

Matt Stephenson is the CEO and Co-Founder along with his wife of Code2College (www.code2college.org), an Austin, TX based nonprofit that is building a national network of diverse, college-going technical talent. Through its skills-based, volunteer-driven program model, high school students – who are primarily Black, brown and girls – develop coding and professional skills, gain exposure to a variety of STEM industries through case competitions and workshops, and build competence, confidence and a deep network through mentorship relationships with industry volunteers.

Under Matt's leadership, Code2College has become the national leader in preparing girls and students of color for STEM undergraduate majors and careers through paid, technical high school internships. These highly competitive technical internship placements continue to be one of Code2College's key differentiators as these students are able to launch their careers in software engineering, AR/VR and other technical fields at leading companies including Atlassian and VMware prior to entering college.

For over 30 years, Lawrence Waugh has been rethinking the way that software is developed. After graduating from MIT, he spent 7 years flying combat jets for the Navy before leaving to pursue his MS in Computer Science at Stanford. Recruited to Austin by Trilogy Software, Lawrence spent the next several years with various Enterprise Software companies, becoming progressively frustrated by their poor product quality and lack of sound development process. By 2001, his passion for efficient and reliable software development led him to found Calavista Software. An early pioneer in continuous integration and delivery, Lawrence holds some of the early patents on software tools and methodologies in these fields. Over the past 20 years, Calavista has served both as a development resource for its customers - delivering high-quality Enterprise software on time and on budget - as well as helping companies improve their own software organizations by transforming their development and delivery processes. In addition to Calavista, Lawrence serves on the Board of the Austin Technology Council and several other organizations and companies.

Link to apply for EY Entrepreneur of the Year: https://www.ey.com/en_us/entrepreneur-of-the-year/central-south/overview

Tom Kieley graduated from Texas A&M in 2004 and co-founded SourceDay in 2015 after launching his first tech startup, RG in 2008. Earlier in his career, he started as a manufacturing supervisor at Dell and later into enterprise selling with software companies like Boomi and Pervasive.

Tom and his co-founder, Clint, started SourceDay to transform how manufacturers, distributors, and retailers collaborate with their suppliers to solve supply chain challenges they experienced early in their careers.

At the time of publishing, SourceDay has helped over 250 customers and 16,000 suppliers globally improve visibility and collaboration in their supply chains.

Tom is a husband, father of three, and exercise fanatic who loves cars, boating, and anything outdoors.

And About SourceDay : As much as 70% of your supply chain problems occur before your parts ever ship. Stop supplier misses with SourceDay. Align with your suppliers on orders and changes. Know where your parts are and when you are going to get them. Late parts will shut down your production line.

Our supply chain collaboration software integrates with most ERPs and connects with your suppliers to automate direct materials PO changes and orchestrates actions to keep supplier execution continuously aligned for continuity of supply.

In 2022 alone, SourceDay has connected over 12 thousand companies, managed 11.6M PO changes, orchestrated receipt of 16.6B parts on-time and protected $755M in revenue on average for 250+ customers.

Dave Parks has over 25 years of experience in the digital strategy and transformative solutions arena. Beginning his career as a software developer, he eventually transitioned into technology management, technical sales and solution sales roles. Dave founded Adjacent Technologies, Inc. in 2002, and was acting CEO until merging Adjacent with enChoice in late 2019. Dave holds a bachelor's degree in Business from Texas A&M University.

Founded in 1993, enChoice®, Inc. is an award-winning Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Digital Transformation solutions company, with 29-years' experience helping customers improve business processes and protect critical information with software and solutions that accelerate their path to digital efficiency.

With offices across the United States and Europe, enChoice is an IBM Platinum Business Partner, 2015 IBM Business Partner of the Year, Microsoft Partner and OpenText Technology Partner.